because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration was a base career mission he would proud of. hossam forces capture would reveal a complex web of covert operations run by u.s. colonel oliver north reagan's administration had bypassed congressional control and funded the contra insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be wrong. all secret but the house and the shoot down. into the open to make a mistake just really tired today round sir no i'm not taking any questions it's just a second i'm going to ask each journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found. while. the revelations of the iran contra affair gave new momentum to the work of the peace activists. evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest

pentagon arms depot on the west coast california's concord naval weapons station. all they were alan and i went out just to check out the situation. and discovered that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of buggers with all these weapons. there was a train track and these bunkers that came out and across the highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships. we had a press conference in which that are in store planning to start afforded if asked.

both of our hearts are a conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he's fourteen years old . and murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. train. in shame not a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stay on and then the train slows down and stops. a couple of people lost the road and went over to the front gate of the new watson station inform them that we were done we can block in and there was already a train that we could see. box cars of munitions they had to. run to be sure to engineer a new dog or something. to the police would probably come at some point to remove them before they could move the train. we deliver the letter to the

person at the base. and that person or someone else said we understand there's going to be violence here today. and we said no no we're told people are not going to be doing any well. and then they start walking back and they say. walking back the cranes are loading. it was obviously the main way faster than it ever train event stage. turns around. and i saw. a few fly out. brian todd. back and forth of that frame i watched

listening to my friend screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training i even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on ours and that's why. i asked for someone to go get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived because baby used to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. this is a few of the. few who. in this room do you. do this with the able to unload them with. brian's action it really opened

a lot of people to. what was going on there and why you should there and how much he had sacrificed in order to save. the concert naval weapons station remains in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallied on behalf of the n.d.p. conference mechanical occupy. protesters tore up the section of the same tracks we're working with brown from the five train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to show that the people there with. which. we will watch it. with you if. this is for me it's a little that. is just me again and just wanted to get out of this.

brian immediately wanted to get out into the right back to the tracks. in the surgeon that's in his heart immediately his compassion for the spotters on the train and doctors of the train he got it right away for other people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given orders and vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized employee and sacrifice him to his service to the people of. the receive the mission. field goal says our son deno. want to also.

just see the miracles this. was. just. a train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the illegal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies from other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. i think. is. the main gate of fort benning. this is there a sacred. this woman. cannot go about the business of killing without.

change we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq and all those wars and go on with our lives as before. you know all these suicides the p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made. up on it this is areso a widespread right. i realized something that was. made by the writer and often. played out to stand alone at war now as it were all while we're all. right there is a bit silly other people i know just because i was ordered to do it so i did learn to be disobedient.

five hundred twenty five salvadoran soldiers arrived at fort benning georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went in to see not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a schooner assassins as we are and it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. on washington called this front page long to figure. it a very big article that. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of harsh mississippi says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. yes. we went to latin america simply to request

that the stops and the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries may just say should just pull out. those countries be in argentina uruguay venezuela. bolivia he went to ecuador with president rafael correa and at that meeting he had not just that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas some he said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less is for the east. to solve. this if. you can make your sick. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by

this and other governments leaves no doubt that the iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs hours later the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the sector to fence off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and they were going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he sits yes sir i said well don't short term. and use it like it's more it's this if. you destroy the first one to look up and you

missed we just finished a little bit of hundreds. i just knew this would do him good except. if it was national guard coming off. of the area. it's a local business or from a typical seems. a. little bit will support school board if these critics one of the biggest musical you didn't need to lose because the. machine into a why for the smear a. little bit if you go to. the post someone into believing in the president does a lot of stuff like you know it's pretty easy.

what politicians do sometimes you can. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go on to be press that's what the full screen the morning can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters in the holidays. first signal. best's job where her cocaine. as were four bucks for dia i'm just ready to everybody use cocaine crack cocaine you can smoke it this is worse like fifteen thirty. twenty. score came to this is about a fifteen dollar bit if you will smoke this one bigger second sweetie you go for

these drugs in any city in the united states that you all. or want to get it about the. make money. and that's what i did every day. brian lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to finance the same kind of war that we were engaged in in iraq the same kind of war that was being wasted against a nigger i want to be home when i was growing up and. as a young immigrant community i had joined the us military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was a very political i read the new i didn't really question things i had been in the

military almost a year i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go to this war. because maybe we will test scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything will be fine. by going its first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in alice on air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners. to be interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping people.

they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either. we started engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since you were dealing with a ghost enemy we're going after the people who are killing. the situation was very intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made it very difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was too afraid to question i was so afraid to take a stand. until i went home i had to wait for a lot and eventually became clear to me that i could not in good conscience continue to be a part of the war at that point i became the first combat veteran to publicly

refuse to go back to war based on morality and based on my own assertion that the war was oil driven. after five months of being on the ground and being a wall and putting together a conscientious objector claim. i decided to surrender to the military. that made my case very political to the military commander. on the military installation. i was very. ared of what the military would do to me if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know that they still have the death penalty for the service and the time war so i was really afraid about that i had no idea what would happen.

if i. thought it is that. was all the. other. one of the treaties which we have thought. of the precedent which we are. have to take for if you want to be a great society and find obedience to authority. you she didn't order it illegal injuring or didn't commit the crime don't do it. quickly found guilt the. assertion. and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to staff sergeant a private. picture of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became a prisoner of conscience. for nine months i was released early because of good. and then i became an anti-war activist thank you

a duty we stand for the immediate withdrawal of all us troops from iraq when i got out of jail one of the first places that i visited what's the point where brian was knew not the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes in ways that i had never imagined possible i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been us intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries. the u.s. government has increased its military budget nearly ninety percent since two. budgets now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year. health costs plus interest from more than one point five million veterans and the us is paying one trillion

dollars per year. and preparation. our government spends ten times more percent of some on average for military costs over industrialized. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home. well you know let's face it the weapons corporations in america always love the enemy and they always log new instability because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exports which means and war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever our job in america is going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly. communities addicted to military

spending cutting the military budget just a tiny little bit corporations are saying don't do that because we're going to lay off thousands of people before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're. trying to. point out that the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think. two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gunning down eleven on armed journalists can sniff a. mile off.

for leaking a classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting the enemy the sentence was thirty five years in a military prison. whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor to want to have a democracy with even some democratic front some foreign policy have to have was labeled as an interest and that will always be at risk because the government will always try to deter anyone from following their example. during sentencing manning apologized to the court. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions and i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not hurt. to make democracy functional really to get the information we need they need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personal risk. people who

will risk their reelection are using their powers of office their powers in a corporation to effect bullshit. at dawn every sunday since february two thousand and four contemporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences of the rule as an instrument of american foreign looms. there's three panels right there see those three. over there you can see to hear those reduced to certain images of all these one do . the iraqis like children the sort of people that's a first thing they see and i think you touch something is touch and you're out show

because nobody is paying for the wars they think they're. paying for the wreck. and they're not paying with the threat of. being devastated my child been taken in there is this is an effort to be yemen to the poor the maple people feel something . about the march to war to kill me. just. then the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember when you know you've seen it before. and it turns to use drifting to war. and on the police didn't. use them to. close it out in modern please. read it.

and just cut. everybody has a greater role to play the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write right start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are afraid to speak out start by convincing a friend and then those speaking in a church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because you can be very frightened but it's equally when it's cold and you confront it your worst fear. and you call the shots and you said i love you enough to risk your wrath by opposing your point. and i didn't harm anyone . willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed or are then surely we can risk some discomfort for.

for pete's. depend on our suffering other beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live and shift other people don't come. along the please. president say this to us are close enough. to share. i won't. tell this.

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they know. the business model of facebook. facebook. facebook users. people use it. where did you work before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us some even proven. true and how many more years

is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. the story the week. is arrested after spending almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london with the rest grabbed the global attention and. possible extradition to the united states. to the news the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful says that african americans should receive financial compensation for the suffering of their ancestors on the slavery we debate the issue. because somebody. doesn't mean. you know.

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